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Well, by anyone not employed by NVIDIA, at least:
Cryptominers have already cracked Nvidia's RTX 3060 hash rate limiter
That certainly didn't take long
When asked for comment, Pikachu just laughed hysterically...
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@izzion said in Expected Backfire:
Well, by anyone not employed by NVIDIA, at least:
Cryptominers have already cracked Nvidia's RTX 3060 hash rate limiter
That certainly didn't take long
When asked for comment, Pikachu just laughed hysterically...
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@izzion said in Expected Backfire:
Well, by anyone not employed by NVIDIA, at least:
Cryptominers have already cracked Nvidia's RTX 3060 hash rate limiter
That certainly didn't take long
When asked for comment, Pikachu just laughed hysterically...
I'm not sure it's a backfire. The whole purpose of this stupidity is just PR. Nvidia wants to look good and shift the blame for high prices on miners.
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@MrL said in Expected Backfire:
Nvidia wants to look good and shift the blame for high prices on miners.
Bah. If I were them, I'd jack the prices up higher and try to bilk the cryptofools for even more money. And use per-customer purchase number limits to divert the miners away from standard desktop gear. (Or make the special crypto-only stuff significantly better at that task so that people using desktop kit for it get squeezed out further.)
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Sounds like they are actually going to make a card targeted directly at crypto mining.
But yeah I'm not sure this is a backfire, they have the media impact of 'look we tried to get cards to you gamers, blame the bad people' and they get the high prices and sales pressure from both groups.
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@bobjanova said in Expected Backfire:
Sounds like they are actually going to make a card targeted directly at crypto mining.
Didn't they try selling GPUs without any display connectors already once?
And it didn't go so well. No resale value, and Nvidia got left with unsold stock, IIRC.
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@acrow said in Expected Backfire:
@bobjanova said in Expected Backfire:
Sounds like they are actually going to make a card targeted directly at crypto mining.
Didn't they try selling GPUs without any display connectors already once?
And it didn't go so well. No resale value, and Nvidia got left with unsold stock, IIRC.
Yes, and you could use a few tricks to use them for gaming anyway.
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@strangeways said in Expected Backfire:
How dare you insult humanity's greatest achievement!
Very easily. I'd dare it even more except for
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@Zerosquare said in Expected Backfire:
@strangeways said in Expected Backfire:
humanity's greatest achievement
You mean foolishness?
That's an intrinsic.
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NVIDIA GeForce 470.05 driver confirmed to remove GeForce RTX 3060 ETH mining limiter - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060’s unhackable mining limiter has been hacked Two German publications have now confirmed that simply by using a special driver, the Ethereum limiter appears to be nonfunctional. NVIDIA announced that their new mid-range RTX 3060 graphics card will have a built-in anti...
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Lawsuits, secret taping and the unraveling of a powerhouse high school football program
Valdosta might be a 24-time state football champ, but lately its program has been rocked by a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former coach, the hiring of controversial coach Rush Propst and a secret recording that alleged cheating by SEC powers.
What do you know, exposing the local handegg powers as breaking the rules makes you unpopular.
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@izzion TRWTF is the structure of that story. They tease you with an allegation, then go into a bunch of history about the previous coach before getting into all the good details. I hate articles that put all that nonsense up front. Bury that shit down at the bottom, for crying out loud.
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@boomzilla I guess I quit reading too soon. I never got to the juicy details.
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@boomzilla said in Expected Backfire:
@izzion TRWTF is the structure of that story. They tease you with an allegation, then go into a bunch of history about the previous coach before getting into all the good details. I hate articles that put all that nonsense up front. Bury that shit down at the bottom, for crying out loud.
Yeah, I wanted to get a quick one sentence explanation that I could turn into bitching about the New England Patriots and Spygate.
I read the first quarter or so and didn't see anything that substantiated the headline. And because I'm not invested in the story beyond the cheap bitching, I didn't actually keep track of who was accusing whom versus whom was counter-accusing who.
And eventually I just said fuck it.
Be better, ESPN. Haven't you ever heard of the fucking inverted pyramid?
In what world is this OK?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Expected Backfire:
And eventually I just said fuck it.
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In what world is this OK?Yep. I probably do that with several stories per day. Not sure why I stuck around on this one, but the allegations make the new coach look like the stereotype you see in the movies. Wants the booster club to stop feeding the players and start supporting his family (which, BTW, used to be his secret family in another town until he divorced the original wife and married the new one), claims that he used to take money from the cops that they'd seized from drug busts and used it to pay rent for ringers to move to the town, etc.
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@boomzilla I never got to any of those details. I gave up at the part about alleged racial bias in firing/hiring. (TL;DR: School board voted not to renew coach's contract; vote was 5:4 along racial lines. Alleged this was in order to hire black coach. Vote to hire new coach was same 5:4 split, but new coach was also white.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Expected Backfire:
the New England Patriots and Spygate
Basically one and the same. From what I hear the Patriots have been a front organization for The Dwellers Below / lizard-people since the Great Shadow passed (you know what I mean). Just another forky-tongue op... still a shame.
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@Gribnit said in Expected Backfire:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Expected Backfire:
the New England Patriots and Spygate
Basically one and the same. From what I hear the Patriots have been a front organization for The Dwellers Below / lizard-people since the Great Shadow passed (you know what I mean). Just another forky-tongue op... still a shame.
For the record, I read several paragraphs of the story before giving up because, as @boomzilla complained, they never got to the fucking point and I even forgot what the headline was, and the whole story made exactly as much sense as what you just wrote.
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@boomzilla said in Expected Backfire:
... Wants the booster club to stop feeding the players and start supporting his family (which, BTW, used to be his secret family in another town until he divorced the original wife and married the new one), claims that he used to take money from the cops that they'd seized from drug busts and used it to pay rent for ringers to move to the town, etc.
Now that's how you skeevy.
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I thought I saw the original "rename" being discussed somewhere here, but maybe my
is leaking. Wherever I saw it, they pretty much called "float that trial balloon during the week of April 1 so you can walk it back as an AFD joke that leaked early" as a perfect INB4...
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A nonprofit promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.
TLDR: Carbon offsets allow for people to be very "clever" and get paid for doing what they were already doing. In this case the Audubon society got paid a bunch of money to "protect" trees from logging that they were already protecting. All in the name of saving the environment.
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@Dragoon said in Expected Backfire:
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.
TLDR: Carbon offsets allow for people to be very "clever" and get paid for doing what they were already doing. In this case the Audubon society got paid a bunch of money to "protect" trees from logging that they were already protecting. All in the name of saving the environment.
This will certainly be the final blow that shatters their crumbling foundation.
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@Dragoon said in Expected Backfire:
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.
TLDR: Carbon offsets allow for people to be very "clever" and get paid for doing what they were already doing. In this case the Audubon society got paid a bunch of money to "protect" trees from logging that they were already protecting. All in the name of saving the environment.
It's even better. They weren't paid directly for protecting - they were awarded CO2 credits. They made the money by selling the credits to companies who wanted to pollute more but couldn't. Their actions are the direct reason why there's more CO2 in the air, and they made millions on it.
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@Gąska so it's like a proxy war for trees by trees, sorta. no worries, this seems normal.
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@Gąska Which is why these CO2 offset trading schemes are nothing more than yet another market for finance types to play in with no connection with reality.
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@Watson said in Expected Backfire:
@Gąska Which is why these CO2 offset trading schemes are nothing more than yet another market for finance types to play in with no connection with reality.
Wish granted. All actions taken by finance types now have strong effects on reality.
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Yeah, getting paid to not cut down trees leads to some interesting effects, because there are lots of people who want you to not cut down trees, and so entities with trees have an incentive to be as extortion-like as possible "We're going to cut down all our trees unless you pay us" even if they otherwise would have no plan to actually do any cutting.
Check out finance journalist Matt Levine "You Can Sell the Trees You Don't Cut" in his daily roundup from April 21: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-21/you-can-sell-the-trees-you-don-t-cut
But if I want you not to cut down trees for my carbon capture program, it is harder to measure how many trees you didn’t cut down. Just sitting here right now, typing this column on my computer, I have cut down zero trees, which means in theory that there are absolutely billions of trees that I have not cut down. Where is my check? A landowner might have planned to cut down only a few trees this year, but she will have incentives to say “I was planning to cut down all my trees,” in order to get paid for not cutting down all of them. She might have trees that are impossibly un-economic to cut down, but it’s easy enough for her not to cut them down.
And then of course the next day, he had a fun response to everybody telling him that of course the solution is to mint NFTs of not-cutting-the-trees (though probably many people saying it were doing so tongue-in-cheek): https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-22/jpmorgan-s-european-super-league-debacle-is-about-stakeholders & scroll down to “Just NFT the trees”.
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@pcooper said in Expected Backfire:
mint NFTs of not-cutting-the-trees (though probably many people saying it were doing so tongue-in-cheek)
At this point, is it really possible to tell the difference?
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@topspin said in Expected Backfire:
@pcooper said in Expected Backfire:
mint NFTs of not-cutting-the-trees (though probably many people saying it were doing so tongue-in-cheek)
At this point, is it really possible to tell the difference?
Yes. But only I am able to do so.
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@Zecc Why would it be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, though? What's the big deal?
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@Applied-Mediocrity That's the name of the boat.
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- The stability of the boat is in an uncertain state. It could fall further over or wash back out to sea at any time.
- The OSHA-friendliness of the boat is in an uncertain state. Dangerous circumstances, like unsecured nets that could offer a choking hazard, could exist.
- The non-occupancy of the boat is in an uncertain state. Although the police reported their understanding that no one was on the boat, a fugitive or corpse definitely still could have been.
